Eck, You got it right. The old drive with the 40 wire was set to cable select. I have it set to cable select with the 80. Seems like...
Ok, I put the new drive in (Plextor-740A) and it seems to be writing at the cd/dvd rated speed so i guess its fixed now. Biggest change was the...
Go ahead, Mattman, rub it in! :) When i hear something like that, I sure miss my Honda GoldWing. Both my HDDs are SATA. Maybe thats why...
Mattman, I'll put the new dvd on the secondary!! And see how that works. Thanks, Guy,
OK, so i got a new plextor 740a. Will try it when i get home. Needed one anyway, the original one had a problem with the door opening and closing...
Be careful what you do with RM! I messed up my PC using it (quite a while ago). Hopefully they have made changes to prevent that from...
Darn, my secret's out. The old truck was 9 years old and getting grouchie, like me! Heres a pic. I think i'll try the firmware that Mattman...
sorry about the config confusion. the first HDD is a master and the second HDD is a slave, both are on the same primary IDE channel when both...
Eck, Its true, they sent me a new tower with all the stuff inside Only after ragging them for 3 1/2 days and about 15-20 phone calls. I know...
Hi Matt, How u doing? let me clean up. Gateway did send me a new tower with new MB. I just had to turn off the MB sound and the MB graphics...
Thats food for thought. I'll give my full attention. Out of town for a week, so will have plenty of time to digest what you said. Wont be out...
UhUo, clear the area, Matts getting his fighting hat on! :D :D An update first, Matt. I went and bought some DVD+R's (16X) and some...
Acronis response: However, you should be aware that the current version of Acronis True Image doesn’t write to DVD directly, instead it...
Good advice. I'm talking to some guys over at cdrlabs and he told me the same thing about un-installing the primary ide and re-booting....
DennisL, Yep. I shouldnt do msg's late at night (or else, get closer to the monitor) :) thanks, clif
Matt, I'll check the manual again and visit those links. This is the new system Matt, the HD's are working as expected with a fairly good...
Dcrypter, I think having to do a full backup initially should be up to the user, not all people want to do a full backup (like me). But i can...
sparrow, I have 5 gig (used) on the "C" drive, Acronis creates a 2.28 image of the backup onto an external HD (USB2) in about 1.5 minutes,...
Matt, Thanks for the info. I'm still getting used to nero, eventually will get the hang of it. I updated to Acronis 8.0 and it does sys...
Ah, Ha! so maybe its SP2 thats killing EzCD 5 and not nero. Somehow i got the strong impression that nero was stopping EzCD from running, silly...
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